Test Process Improvement
One day
During recent years process improvement has become an important activity within the IT industry. Despite the fact that testing often accounts for 30-40% of the total project costs only limited attention is given to testing in the various models such as the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) and ISO 15504 (commonly known as SPICE). As an answer the test community has created its
complementary improvement models. This course focuses on the advances made in the creation of a Test Maturity Model and covers both test processes and the way improvement may be achieved.
Objectives:
- understand the basics of test process improvement and the important models
- know about all the standard, well established, test processes
- gain knowledge and insight into process improvement specifically as applied to testing processes
- be able to perform a formal assessment of current capabilities
- be able to define key test metrics and carry out a test measurement programme
- be able to prioritise, define and implement practical test improvements
- understand all the available methods that can be employed as part of an improvement programme
Intended for
Test managers and test consultants who are responsible for improving
corporate testing processes; users who are responsible for acceptance
testing and want to improve the user acceptance testing; quality assurance
and software process improvement staff who need in-depth knowledge of test
process improvement and who will define test standards
Key points
- the philosophy of process improvement
- existing formal process improvement models including the Capability Maturity Model (CMM), SPICE (ISO/IEC 15504) and the Goal-Question-Metric (GQM) approach
- extending the models to a Test Maturity Model
- a generic approach to Test Process Improvement.
- testing processes within ISO 12207 and BS 7925.
- implementing a well established Generic Test Process; how it works within
ISO 12207; examples of application.
- implementing improvement and the need for all to be involved: obtaining
commitment
- the use of project metrics.
- the creation of the action plan for process improvement
- the establishment of a baseline
- progressing the improvement process
- recording and reporting the status of tested products, including the use of metrics
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